From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. Here you will find Shangri-La and El Dorado, Utopia and Middle Earth, Wonderland and Freedonia, described not as settings but rather as places to visit, with profiles of the inhabitants and advice for the well-prepared traveler. The updated and expanded edition also includes newer destinations like Jurassic Park, Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with more than 200 maps and illustrations.